Smarty snippet / addon (or similar) to display Geo Targeted Content for State

[cdeese8]

May you please point me into the right direction on how I could achieve this? This is what I imagine would just magically work if I typed into a .tpl file...

{if statecode = "AK"}
hi people from Alaska
{elseif statecode = "CO"}
hi people from Colorado
{else}
hi everyone else...
{/if}

Right now I'm still doing research, here are some notes I have:

* https://www.docs.modulesgarden.com/Geolocation_Hook_For_WHMCS
* site:whmcs.community conditional logic geo localization
* maxmind Geolocation whmcs -fraud
* https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/
* https://ipinfo.io/
* https://whmcs.community/topic/249129-custom-html-panel-for-specific-country/
* http://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.function.if.tpl
* https://www.smarty.net/docs/en/plugins

Any wisdom you may have that can help me achieve what I desire would be awesome. Thanks!

:)

Edited January 10, 2019 by cdeese8
updated title

[brian!]

16 hours ago, cdeese8 said:

May you please point me into the right direction on how I could achieve this?

you missed out one vital piece of information - do you want to do this for everyone or just for logged in clients ?

if logged in clients, then it's simple as "state" will be one of the values in the $clientsdetails array and all clientarea pages will have access to that.

if everyone, then you're in the realms of utilising a third-party Geo-IP location service (e.g one of the ones that you've listed that includes city/states)... although bear in mind that no such service is 100% accurate, and certainly not if the visitor is using a VPN to view the site.

[cdeese8]

This addon might be overkill, but perhaps the Geolocation Hook For WHMCS config.php (geolocation_hook_2.0.1_whmcs\includes\Geolocation\config.php) file might be the best starting point. I can add the GeoLite2 City.mmdb and see what kind of damage I can do in a couple of hours.

Maybe you know this kind of stuff just because... 😃... if you had to guess, do you think, by adding a 59 meg file to the addon will make website load speed noticeably slower?

Of course! I didn't think about doing something for logged in clients but yea, you make good point about VPN. Using WHMCS 7.4.* and stock template, I thought it would be fancy for logged out clients to see something a tad-bit more welcoming. The idea is to make a landing page that converts and having a little bit extra touch of personal might help (or deter because it's creepy).

Alright, gonna dig my fingers into the keyboard.. thanks for feedback